If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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